 It is to be regretted that no mental method of daguerreotype or photography has yet been discovered, by which the characters of men can be reduced to writing and put into grammatical language with an unerring precision of truthful description. How often...  Ford Madox Ford's Literary Contacts - Page 44publié par - 2007 - 271 pagesAperçu limité - À propos de ce livre
 | Anthony Trollope - 1858 - 462 pages
...made to stand before the reader's eye by the aid of such portraiture as the author is able to produce. It is to be regretted that no mental method of daguerreotype...often does the novelist feel, ay, and the historian also and the biographer, that he has conceived within his mind and accurately depicted on the tablet... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1860 - 602 pages
...made to stand before the reader's eye by the aid of such portraiture as the author is able to produce. It is to be regretted that no mental method of daguerreotype...often does the novelist feel, ay, and the historian also and the biographer, that he has conceived within his mind and accurately depicted on the tablet... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1891 - 418 pages
...made to stand before the reader's eye by the aid of such portraiture as the author is able to produce. It is to be regretted that no mental method of daguerreotype...often does the novelist feel, ay, and the historian also and the biographer, that he has conceived within his mind and accurately depicted on the tablet... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1899 - 374 pages
...go; he relates what they said and did, and draws full-length portraits of them. His main regret is 'that no mental method of daguerreotype or photography...with an unerring precision of truthful description.' With his mind concentrated upon his characters, he looks them full in the face, perplexed by no ethical... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1899 - 360 pages
...go; he relates what they said and did, and draws full-length por. traits of them. His main regret is 'that no mental method of daguerreotype or photography...to writing and put into grammatical language with, as unerring precision of truthful description.' With his mind concentrated upon his characters, he... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1900 - 396 pages
...made to stand before the reader's eye by the aid of such portraiture as the author is able to produce. It is to be regretted that no mental method of daguerreotype...often does the novelist feel, ay, and the historian also and the biographer, that he has conceived within his mind and accurately depicted on the tablet,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1904 - 808 pages
...go; he relates what they said and did, and draws full-length portraits of them. His main regret is "that no mental method of daguerreotype or photography...with an unerring precision of truthful description." With his mind concentrated upon his characters, he looks them full in the face, perplexed by no ethical... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1906 - 544 pages
...made to stand before the reader's eye by the aid of such portraiture as the author is able to produce. It is to be regretted that no mental method of daguerreotype...often does the novelist feel, ay, and the historian also and the biographer, that he has conceived within his mind and accurately depicted on the tablet... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1906 - 482 pages
...to stand before the reader's eye by the aid of such portraiture as the author is able to produce. /- It is to be regretted that no mental method of daguerreotype...or photography has yet been discovered by which the I characters of men can be reduced to writing and put into grammatical language with an unerring precision... | |
 | 1906 - 774 pages
...novels scientific transcripts of life. With similar attitude, Anthony Trollope is found regretting that "no mental method of daguerreotype or photography...yet been discovered by which the characters of men may be reduced to writing and put into grammatical language with an unerring precision of truthful... | |
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